Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
April 4 - 8
April 4
April 7
Thompson
Read one of the following articles and write a reactive post to the material. Use the subject line "Addictions."
Read one of the following articles and write a reactive post to the material. Use the subject line "Addictions."
April 5-6
ASPIRE Testing
Kipling
"The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin"
"IF"
Write your own "IF" poem mimicking the structure and post it to your blog with the subject line "A Poem Inspired by Kipling"
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 was awarded to Rudyard Kipling "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author"
"The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin"
"IF"
Write your own "IF" poem mimicking the structure and post it to your blog with the subject line "A Poem Inspired by Kipling"
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 was awarded to Rudyard Kipling "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author"
March 28 - April 1
March 28
March 29
Carroll
"The White Queen's Riddle"
Email me the correct answer to "The White Queen's Riddle" (five clues are given) and list one of two "ironic, unexpected twists" in "The Walrus and the Carpenter." Please use the subject line "Answer to the White Queen's Riddle"
March 29
Skype meeting at 8pm
Hardy
"The Three Strangers"
Bonus Opportunity
Hardy
"The Three Strangers"
Bonus Opportunity
Summarize "The Three Strangers" into an original aphorism and create a "beautiful typography art picture" of it using QuotesCover. Post it to your blog with the subject line "Hardy"
Give examples of foreshadowing and irony from "The Three Strangers." Post using the subject line "Foreshadowing and Irony in The Three Strangers"
March 30Give examples of foreshadowing and irony from "The Three Strangers." Post using the subject line "Foreshadowing and Irony in The Three Strangers"
Hopkins
"Pied Beauty"
"God's Grandeur"
"Pied Beauty" is best read aloud due to the unique diction and meter. Record yourself reading the poem aloud and embed it in your blog with the subject line "Hopkins." Please also include one example of alliteration, assonance, internal rhyme, or rhythm from "God's Grandeur" in text format in the post
"God's Grandeur"
"Pied Beauty" is best read aloud due to the unique diction and meter. Record yourself reading the poem aloud and embed it in your blog with the subject line "Hopkins." Please also include one example of alliteration, assonance, internal rhyme, or rhythm from "God's Grandeur" in text format in the post
March 31
April 1
Hanalani Writes
Resources
Understanding Alice
Housman
"When I Was One and Twenty"
"To An Athlete Dying Young"
"Eight O'Clock"
"They Say My Verse Is Sad"
Create a storyboard for one of the Housman poems in your textbook and post it (depending on how you create it, you may have to scan it in as an image or upload it as a PDF) to your blog with the subject line "Housman." Please also include a copy of the original poem in your post
"When I Was One and Twenty"
"To An Athlete Dying Young"
"Eight O'Clock"
"They Say My Verse Is Sad"
Create a storyboard for one of the Housman poems in your textbook and post it (depending on how you create it, you may have to scan it in as an image or upload it as a PDF) to your blog with the subject line "Housman." Please also include a copy of the original poem in your post
Hanalani Writes
Resources
Understanding Alice
March 14 - 18
March 14
March 15
Skype meeting at 8pm
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Style, Subject and Reception
Sonnet 43
Bonus Opportunity
Mimic E. Browning's use of similes in writing a free-verse poem sharing your love to someone or something. You must include 5 or more similes in this poem. You may copy the style of Browning, or you may use your own. Post to your blog with the subject line "Love Similes"
March 16
Robert Browning
"My Last Duchess"
Listen to the audio version of the poem and draw a portrait of the woman being described. Embed your masterpiece to your blog with the subject line "My Last Duchess" and include a brief explanation of your artwork
Listen to the audio version of the poem and draw a portrait of the woman being described. Embed your masterpiece to your blog with the subject line "My Last Duchess" and include a brief explanation of your artwork
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!''
Rabbi Ben Ezra
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!''
Rabbi Ben Ezra
Skype meeting at 8pm
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Style, Subject and Reception
Sonnet 43
Bonus Opportunity
Mimic E. Browning's use of similes in writing a free-verse poem sharing your love to someone or something. You must include 5 or more similes in this poem. You may copy the style of Browning, or you may use your own. Post to your blog with the subject line "Love Similes"
Arnold
"Dover Beach"
Create and embed your audioBoom (works best with Firefox) using the subject line "Arnold audioBoom." Listen to the player below for specific instructions
March 17
March 18
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Woman Question
Rossetti
"Uphill"
Use PowToon as the storytelling medium to share a time where you personally went through a trial or difficulty. Include the verses that God used to encourage you through that time (or in hindsight). Post your "story" to your blog with the subject line "Have I Not Striven"March 7 - 11
March 7
Create an ideal hero using a web tool of your choice (i.e. HeroMachine) and embed the image on your blog. Include a description of the hero as well as an appropriate quotation from the reading (you may have to explain the connection between your quotation and created hero). Use the subject line "Carlyle Hero"
Hanalani Writes
Resources
Carlyle
"The Hero as Divinity" and "The Hero as a Poet" (On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History)Create an ideal hero using a web tool of your choice (i.e. HeroMachine) and embed the image on your blog. Include a description of the hero as well as an appropriate quotation from the reading (you may have to explain the connection between your quotation and created hero). Use the subject line "Carlyle Hero"
I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward."
Lord Chesterfield, British statesman
March 8
Skype meeting at 8:00pm
From The Tamworth Reading Room
Bonus Opportunity
Create an online survey and compile the results for the following question: what "...must be made the element and principle of all education"? Please post your survey and the results (include at least ten participants and consider adding a personal summative piece to tie it all together) using the subject line "Newman Survey"
March 9
Tennyson Introduction
March 10
Third Quarter ePortfolio; make changes based on previous suggestions, clean up Twitter and blog posts, and add SpeakPipe. Please send me an email with a marked rubric that shows the points you believe you deserve for each category and the total amount of points you have given your work. Additionally, include the reasons why you have designated the category points that you have (the comments may be textual or audio)
Bonus Opportunity
Create an audio post in which you share what you've learned this quarter and post it to your blog with the subject line "Third Quarter Reflection"
March 11
Skype meeting at 8:00pm
Newman
Bonus Opportunity
Create an online survey and compile the results for the following question: what "...must be made the element and principle of all education"? Please post your survey and the results (include at least ten participants and consider adding a personal summative piece to tie it all together) using the subject line "Newman Survey"
March 9
Tennyson Introduction
"Crossing the Bar"
"Kapiolani"
Use Tagxedo or TagCrowd to symbolize one of Tennyson's poems. Embed it to your blog with the poem's title as the subject line
March 10
Third Quarter ePortfolio; make changes based on previous suggestions, clean up Twitter and blog posts, and add SpeakPipe. Please send me an email with a marked rubric that shows the points you believe you deserve for each category and the total amount of points you have given your work. Additionally, include the reasons why you have designated the category points that you have (the comments may be textual or audio)
Bonus Opportunity
Create an audio post in which you share what you've learned this quarter and post it to your blog with the subject line "Third Quarter Reflection"
March 11
Resources
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